After the Beijing Zoo, we went to the Peking Man site called Zhoukoudian, southwest of Beijing. This is the site of the first discoveries of Homo erectus in Asia, and the place is beautiful! The museum is very well done, too.

To get to the Zhoukoudian museum and cave sites, you being by going up this ramp. Along both sides are signs introducing the various paleoanthropologists and geologists that worked on the sites in the beginning and made it (and them) famous. Pictures of these signs follow -- for those interested in the history of paleontology!